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How big is a buttload?
And there is also an assload – an amount carried by a donkey or any large, unspecified amount.
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Interesting words from Word Daily
I love receiving my daily word from Word Daily. Some of the words dance off the tongue but seem to have fallen completely out of use (are English words becoming simpler over time?). Others are probably...
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Endlings
Benjamin, the last Tasmanian Tiger, was an endling. Photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933. This was a word I had not heard until recently. An endling is the final individual of a species. When the endling...
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Words
And these are not words, but punctuation. AI loves to use bullet points and em-dashes, so I avoid using them these days. It’s a pity though, because I have always loved using bullet points in my...
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Contronyms
and some more buckle: to fasten (a belt), or to collapse under pressure. clip: to fasten with a clip, or to cut with scissors. consult: to give advice, or to get advice. custom:common practice or a...
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Did you know what an occlupanid is? I didnt’!
People collect them, describe them paint them… …and there is a synthetic taxonomy parody research site here
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Did you know this about seconds and minutes? I didn’t!
As a word nerd myself, I love the Language Nerds online. This is from their Facebook page, but you can find them on your favourite social media.
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Menopause clothing
They now have menstruation underwear, so menopause clothing was not far behind. I wonder if it helps?
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The difference between equity and equality
I saw the above on Instagram, and for me it is the perfect illustration of equity. People often confuse equity and equality. “It’s not about everybody getting the same thing,” Cynthia Silva Parker...
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Interesting about orange
Orange seems to be the only basic colour word for which no other word exists in English. There was no colour orange, at least before oranges came to Europe. This is not to say that no one recognised...
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Extirpation
Rhodesian giraffe, only found in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). Only 500 remain in the wild and there are none in zoos. Extirpation means local extinction, where a species that is extinct in the...
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Crepuscular Cat Crazies
Domestic cats do this because they are not nocturnal (awake at night) diurnal (awake during the day) but crepuscular – most active at dusk and dawn. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word for twilight,...
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White labelling
White Labelling is where companies (often Chinese) mass-produce basic product (makeup, pens, bags) and ship it straight off the factory floor to the purchaser who then adds their own brand labels....
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The difference between jealousy and envy
In Swedish, as in English, there is a word for envy (avund) and one for jealousy (svartsjuka). Swedes, however, are much better than using the words correctly. In English, people usually use the...
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Cat’s Eyes renamed Road Studs
Cat’s eyes were invented by Percy Shaw in 1934 and in 2006 were voted one of Britain’s top 10 designs alongside Concorde, Mini and the World Wide Web. Mr Shaw came up with the idea while driving home...
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Hobo vs Vagabond vs Tramp vs Homebum
Source: Wikipedia Many people think hobo is a general word for tramps, hobos, and bums. But it is not. Our society was built on railway workers, agricultural workers, farm hands, cowboys, etc moving...
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Swearing in English
Swedish swearwords (or profanities or cursing if you prefer) tend to seem quite mild compared to the English. They tend to reference hell and the devil whereas the really bad English swearwords tend...
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Bikeshedding aka the Law of Triviality
This really spoke to me. I never seen such epic discussions at the workplaces I have had as those about ordering a new coffee machine. I also do large negotiation exercises as parts of some of our...
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Epicaricacy
Swedish has a word, skadeglädje, which means the same as the German schadenfreude. English also uses the word schadenfreude: I always thought this was because English did not have an equivalent...
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